Piedmont, South Dakota.
. Rapid City, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Living in Piedmont, Meade County, South Dakota
Piedmont is a city of 971 people in Meade County. Half its households earn more than $53,866 a year and half less, against $74,790 across Meade County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Meade County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Piedmont is a small city in Meade County, South Dakota, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is the warmest and the summers are comfortably warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Meade County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Meade School District and Monument Health Sturgis Regional. Unemployment in the county is low and unchanged from a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. Only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Bogus Jim Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Sylvan Lake, a reservoir, and to Reptile Gardens, a zoo. Dinosaur Park, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 9,206 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°. About 36 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rapid City 4NW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meade County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs784
- Meade School District 46-1School district399FTE
- Monument Health Sturgis RegionalCritical access hospital146FTE
- GenPro Energy SolutionsHighway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation127
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services82
- CourtyardHotels, resort, without casinos58
- 34 EllsworthMaintenance and repair services, aircraft46
- Harlow's School Bus Service35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 770 people in all across the county; Piedmont has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of PiedmontRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of PiedmontRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of PiedmontRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of PiedmontRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Piedmont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Meade County and the Rapid City, SD metro.
Piedmont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Piedmont listings — the market is roughly in balance.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Piedmont31.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Piedmont23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Piedmont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Piedmont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.